April 10th: The bill has been vetoed!
April 2nd: The politicians in Arizona are about to sign into law a bill that would mandate sites like e621 to either impose age verification on all users or be at a risk of lawsuits. Such system would be required to go through third party vendors, who in turn must go through a government database to verify every user's age. This is not only a major violation of privacy, but it also opens up a very real danger of identity theft through phishing schemes and other methods, not to mention that we would not be able to control any of that information to make sure it is permanently deleted after age verification is complete.
Unfortunately, Arizona is the state out of which e621 operates, which means that this law will almost certainly affect us if it is to pass. If want to help us ensure that this site can continue to serve you without being required to know who you are, please ask the Arizona governor to veto this bill.
Please, help us get the word out by letting others know about this issue.
For some further information on what the bill does have a look at https://action.freespeechcoalition.com/bill/arizona-hb-2586/
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Azure Drake
MemberThis is intersex how?
Nexiv
MemberBecause I know this character as this is my character. That's why I stated its real gender.
Azure Drake
MemberNot how this site works. Tag what you see is the rule. It's okay to state the additional information in the description if you really want people to know, but the tags are meant to describe what the picture looks like.
Nexiv
MemberWell, then this rule is dumb af. It should be used only when the gender is completely unknown. You could see gender on previous pages of the comic? Stay with the same gender. You have info from the artist or the character owner? Use it.
I saw a comic yesterday, tags for main character's gender were jumping from ambigious to male through maleherm and cuntboy. That's just dumb.
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